Essays of Elia, and Eliana. With a memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 1G. Bell, 1879 |
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... respects , this memoir will contain only what I recollect and what I have learned from authentic sources , of my old friend . The fact that distinguished Charles Lamb from other men was his entire devotion to one grand and tender ...
... respects , this memoir will contain only what I recollect and what I have learned from authentic sources , of my old friend . The fact that distinguished Charles Lamb from other men was his entire devotion to one grand and tender ...
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... respect . The first books which he loved to read were volumes of poetry , and essays on serious and religious themes . The works of the old poets , the history of Quakers , the biography of Wesley , the controversial papers of Priestley ...
... respect . The first books which he loved to read were volumes of poetry , and essays on serious and religious themes . The works of the old poets , the history of Quakers , the biography of Wesley , the controversial papers of Priestley ...
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... respect he seems to have differed from Milton ( who desired fame , like " Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonides " ) , and to have rather resembled Shakespeare , who was in- different to fame or assured of it ; but perhaps he resembled no ...
... respect he seems to have differed from Milton ( who desired fame , like " Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonides " ) , and to have rather resembled Shakespeare , who was in- different to fame or assured of it ; but perhaps he resembled no ...
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... respect for some of the modern authors . In particular , he admired ( to the full extent of his capacity for liking ) Coleridge , and Wordsworth , and Burns . But with these ex- ceptions his affections rested mainly on writers who had ...
... respect for some of the modern authors . In particular , he admired ( to the full extent of his capacity for liking ) Coleridge , and Wordsworth , and Burns . But with these ex- ceptions his affections rested mainly on writers who had ...
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... respect Lamb was no follower of his school- fellow : his own career being steady and un- swerving , from his entrance into the India House until the day of his freedom from service ; between thirty and forty years . His literary tastes ...
... respect Lamb was no follower of his school- fellow : his own career being steady and un- swerving , from his entrance into the India House until the day of his freedom from service ; between thirty and forty years . His literary tastes ...
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acquaintance admiration affected afterwards amongst beauty Bernard Barton called character Charles Lamb Christ's Hospital Coleridge Coleridge's confess dear death dreams Elia essays Essays of Elia eyes face fancy feel fences of shame gardens gentle gentleman George Dyer Gladmans grace hath Hazlitt heard heart Hertfordshire Hogarth honour humour India House Inner Temple John knew Lamb's Leigh Hunt less letters lived London London Magazine look Magazine manner Mary Mary Lamb matter ment mind Miss moral Munden nature never night occasion once passed passion perhaps person play pleasant pleasure poet poetry poor Quaker racter reader remember Robert Southey says scarcely seems seen sister smile solemn sometimes Southey speak spirit story Street sweet talk taste Temple tender thee things thou thought tion truth verses walking whist words Wordsworth writes young youth
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Page 302 - Far other worlds, and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide : There like a bird it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Page 188 - How have I seen the casual passer through the cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy...
Page 302 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Page 328 - We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice called Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name...
Page 198 - Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it; or if thy heart overfloweth to lend them, lend thy books; but let it be to such a one as STC ; he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value.
Page 191 - THE human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth, " Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites," flock hither, and do naturally fall in with one or other of these primary distinctions.
Page 399 - THE artificial Comedy, or Comedy of manners, is quite extinct on our stage. Congreve and Farquhar show their heads once in seven years only, to be exploded and put down instantly. The times cannot bear them.
Page 264 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 370 - Whether, supposing that the flavour of a pig who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremam) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting the animal to death ?
Page 189 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.